Unit 10 - After the Excursion - Representations

Queensland Studies Authority Early Years Curriculum Guidelines

Creating and designing

Children generate and represent ideas, experiences and possibilities by experimenting with materials and processes in a variety of creative, imaginative and innovative ideas.

Children begin to construct a language for expressing ideas and feelings by discussing, respecting and responding to the features of own and other’s representation, experiences and artworks.

Queensland Studies Authority -
Years One to Ten Science Syllabus

Life and living

1.2 Students group living things in different ways based on observable features

1.3 Students observe and describe components of familiar environments

2.2 Students illustrate changes which take place in the course of a life span of living things (including the growth of a plant and an animal)

By representing their experiences in a wide variety of ways students are able to use their own voice to express their learning.  They use a variety of materials and solve many problems.  They collaborate and share ideas.

By working in this way they are

• Extending and enhancing their understandings of the rainforest
• Making choices and decisions
• Applying mathematical concepts
• Sequencing experiences
• Retaining interest over a period of time
• Combining materials
• Recalling experiences in a meaningful way
• Learning from each other
• Thinking inventively
• Using literacy in a meaningful way